To honor the new year, multitudes of otaku have made pilgrimages to Shinto shrines for the privilege of scrawling (and in some cases, elegantly sketching) their wishes upon ema, (small wooden votive plaques) with the majority of their divine prayers being anime-centric – as is now classic Japanese tradition.

You mean those stories that almost always start up with a lonely guy (probably an avatar of the writer) meeting a girl under the most bizarre circumstances (wet dream fulfilling, I guess) and, almost always, the girl (or both) end up dying a painful, unexplainable death just for the hell of dramatic gore climax...? Yes, I have heard of those.

Oh, and +90% of those become a hentai story out of thin air (also under bizarre circumstances). Beautiful art, that.

I wish that they come up with another idea for an anime than "let's take (insert inanimate objects here) and make them into cute girls!" and that they stop making tie-in card games to every fucking thing in existence.